Can I get insurance for company renting humanoids for parties?

It feels like an daunting and impossible task to find insurance for a company trying to rent humanoids for events and parties. How in the world are Neos and Telsa Optimus going to get insurance coverage if they are…

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Are they just big players so they can get hold of risk underwriters and get them to approve it. But a small company that is trying to build rent robots for parties or conduct educational workshops using humanoids cannot get even general liability.

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shoo14 days ago

Quite a few successful businesses have their origin story in the founders starting business A, running into some annoying problem, then starting business B to solve that problem.

Be the party robot liability insurer you want to see in the world.

skyberrys13 days ago

What about app Thimble? I used it to get a 2 day policy to take my LED globe and viewing portal to an earth day festival. It's not a robot but it's fancy electronics and the event required a policy.

brudgers14 days ago

If you make robots then you are probably looking at product liability insurance, not general liability insurance…though a robotmaker would usually have that too for general liability.

But I am not an insurance agent.

cpsk14 days ago

I'm not looking for manufacturer. I bought robots from a manufacturer and I have build some custom apps like adding a voice agent for Halloween. i also have simplified some devtooling for RL. I have some universities asking me to showcase the bots and sample apps in their AI innovation centers so that students get exposure to programming robots.

But for me to go on the campus with robots they want me to carry 2M in general liability. When I speak to insurance providers they are putting in a category that is not insurable by the common home, auto and small biz insurance.

sloaken14 days ago

I think, not that I know, that they are expecting YOU, not your robots to have the liability insurance. If they go crazy, I think it is you they sue. Not the robots.

kuuuzya14 days ago

I think you have some insurance from companies. Or not. In case of murder we’ll got a cool idea for the new film about robots

pavel_lishin14 days ago

Is it murder if a rented lawnmower kills a person?

cpsk14 days ago

dude take a chill pill...the robots I have are 3 ft and weigh 40 lbs.

thorin14 days ago

Would you rather fight one chicken sized robot or 100 robot sized chickens?

sloaken14 days ago

When in doubt, I hear Llyods of London will insure anything, for the right price.

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